Paramore: After Laughter - Album Review

Disclaimer: 

This is a quick disclaimer for any Paramore fans who may visit this page.

I’d like to say first off before I start the “review” that this is not an official review. I have no official knowledge of music. Or an English degree. I am begrudgingly a biology major and a music hoarder. You may simply call this a regular blog post of an album I’ve been listening to. Mostly, I just wanted to talk about my fandom for Paramore, the concept of the album, and my relationship with the songs by talking about how each track affected me.

I now have a print of "Starry Night" in my bedroom.

So this is it. 3 years in the making.

It's not straight!!! My OCD...

Songs I would like BTS's Vocal Line to Cover (pretty please)

I'm out of my frump. Classes are over. I barely passed my ridiculous finals. Now I have a week's time of doing nothing except recovering for this horrible semesters.

Anyways, voting for BTS for the Billboard awards continues and everyday I tried to come up with fun ways for tweet the #BTSBBMAs. (Also if you live in America, vote through the website linked here). I've done cute Jihope gifs, dark BTS quotes with beautiful fansite pictures and bright pink BTS quotes with gifs.

A couple days ago, I decided to compile a list of songs I wanted to share so that through some mind telepathy BTS's vocal line could hear me ask them to cover some songs for me. This came from Tae's his Philippine VLive when he asked Armys to ask Jimin to cover the song "I'm the one" by DJ Dummy and his band of weirdos + Chance the Rapper (he independent so he ok) because it was his favorite new song. I had the pleasure of watching the music video today and I legit had a stank face throughout the whole thing. Beaver's voice is good and I can hear Jimin sing the chorus. But I'd rather not have it.

I also just wanted to recommend some good music for you guys. 

So here are the songs I thought would be great if the Vocal Line covered them:

The Rules: 

- 5 songs each

- Take listen to the original song on any platform or watch its music video

- Imagine JungVMinJin sing it with a full production

An experiment to remind myself: The world is awful.

I wanted to try something.

Watch this first. I love SNL. (:1)

Relevant Song Recommendation: We Cry by The Script

I've been so out of sorts these last two weeks. I'm happy about another semester gone by, but I have been in despair about another 4 months wasted doing something I hate and wishing to be working on what I want.

I started listening to all of my older music collection and I fell back in love with this song: "We Cry" by The Script.

Read the lyrics here (lovely and depressing): 

MY Middle School Music Era IS BACK!!!!!!!!!

 

That's it, bye. Thanks for visiting.

New Artist Alert: Aminé

Ok, I'm so freaking late on this young man. This song came out last year.

But I have been obsessed over this song for more than a week now. I've been singing and dancing randomly to this.

I also love this choreography by Brian Puspos.

[Update] Just Saying - Quick Thoughts about Tae

To say I was grossly uninformed would be understatement. I'm sorry.

If you want to continue reading, those are my thoughts from a couple days ago. I thought these people were merely wayward fans, lost in their path. But I realized now people have been working hard to clean up the trash, while I just brushed it under the rug. Taking responsibility for my words, I'll post this explanation I found from Instagram. Reading this enlightened me and may enlighten you.

Hang in there, baby... New posts are coming.

Hi, everyone.

Again after a two weeks of school kicking my ass and self-doubt and hint of laziness, I'm working on some new posts. I just have to write them.

Please anticipate.

The semester's almost over. (dance) The semester's almost over. (dance)
The semester's almost over. (dance) The semester's almost over. (dance)
The semester's almost over. (dance) The semester's almost over. (dance)
The semester's almost over. (dance) The semester's almost over. (dance)

K, bye.
See you then. 

Good Music and Good Grades - My Good Friday

John Mayer has such good sportsmanship. He noticed that Kendrick Lamar's much-anticipated 3rd album was coming out on the same day his album was. He said:

That's my buddy.

So, I'm so excited because I'm pretty sure I aced the hell out of my Organic Chemistry exam.

I listened to both John and Kendrick's album. Guess which one I bought.

John Mayer, sigh. Why...?

Why did you leave all your best songs for the last moment?

My eyes literally rolled back at all of the great riffs and the new stories he gave us from the 4 last four songs. I'm so mad that he made me say all these bad things about him only to rock a whole ass new album with just a few duds that I might honestly like once he performs them live and I can watch them online. Seriously, this album. Give me a few more listens and I might just buy it.

KENDRICK LAMAR'S ALBUM is quite honestly another masterpiece. I remember what he said last time when "To Pimp a Butterfly" came out. To just live and breathe the piece of work and think about like it's a book. People were calling it "THE BEST CONCEPTUAL RAP ALBUM OF ALL TIME" but I won't yet. They are doing that again 2 years later. I'd just like to say that he should really be proud of bringing out another vision to add to his legacy of speaking about his struggle and his dreams for his future. Congratulations.

Obviously I haven't read any lyrics yet but I'm just expressing my thoughts from my first listen.

1. BTW: I really do need to see the lyrics. He is PrEaChInG.
2. It all connects. Can't you see? It connects. I love stories that do that. (geeking out)
3. Rihanna did a great job in her feature. U2 too. (hehe) I don't know who Zacari is but I'm willing to find out.
4. His storytelling is my dream. I wish I could tell stories and construct storylines like him.
5. His detail to sound is amazing. The different tones that he goes through, the different undulations, the different accents, they all mean different things that created depth to the songs and give more to hunt for as listeners. He did the same in "To Pimp a Butterfly".

I kinda wish that Humble was little higher on the tracklist. However, I do understand how it progressed with the story.

I listened to the album on high volume in my car on my commute home for school and I don't know what I did to deserve such a blessed day.

And BTS posted on Twitter.

And Daewon of Madtown did a live that I was there for.

And I got my new glasses.

;))))))

*images are my own screenshots. Comments on John Mayer's post were blurred out by me.